SPS

Contents 1 Computer and gaming hardware and software 2 Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions 3 Genealogy 4 Medicine and psychology 5 Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses 6 Science and engineering 7 Other uses in the Americas 8 Other uses in the UK

The abbreviation SPS stands for items in the following categories:

Computer and gaming hardware and software

• SharePoint Portal Server, a Microsoft Office product
• Sleep Proxy Service, a power management enhancement to Multicast DNS
• Sony PlayStation, a 1994 video game console
• Symbolic Programming System, a code assembler developed by IBM
• Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung, German for Programmable Logic Controller

Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions

• St. Patrick's School, Asansol, an old school in Asansol, India
• St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), a boarding school in the United States
• St Paul's School (London), a day and boarding school in the United Kingdom
• School of Practical Science, of the University of Toronto in Canada
• Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in in the United States
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
• Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
• Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
• Software Preservation Society, a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
• Sadiq Public School, a boarding school in Pakistan.
• Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle
• Springfield Public Schools, in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey

Genealogy

• sine prole superstite, Latin for without surviving issue (children).

Medicine and psychology

• Small Penis Syndrome, a psychological condition
• Simple partial seizure, a seizure which affects only a small region of the brain
• Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
• P600/SPS (short for Syntactic Positive Shift), an event-related potential in brain imaging
• Skinny Pants Syndrome, a fictional disorder from Sonny with a Chance. It occurs when someone wears skinny jeans too long.
• Single Port Surgery, a minimally invasive surgery technique.

Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses

• Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка Партија Србије), a political party in Serbia
• Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a political party in Russia
• Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei Schweiz), a political party in Switzerland
• Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
• Scottish Prison Service
• Singapore Prison Service
• Swedish Police Service
• State Police Services, number of police services in different states and territories of India
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• Standard Procurement System for the US Department of Defense

Science and engineering

• Service Propulsion System, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
• Sewerage Pumping Station (or Sanitary Pumping Station), a pumping facility designed to handle raw sewage
• Side Protection System, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of early warship design
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
• Switched-mode power supply, an electronic power supply unit that incorporates a switching regulator
• Samples Per Second, a sampling rate
• Spark Plasma Sintering, a sintering technique
• Statistic Process Control, a method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts
• Small polyp stony coral, a category of coral, often collected in aquaria
• SAME code SPS, used for issuing special weather statements and significant weather alerts
• Syndiotactic Polystyrene, an engineering plastic

Other uses in the Americas

• San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras
• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
• SPS Specialized Plumbing Services, Is a licensed plumbing company in California

Other uses in the UK

• Station Police Sergeant, or Station Sergeant, a defunct British police rank
• Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the United Kingdom

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